Mahatma [On Hold]

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     I hold that it is wrong to conduct newspapers by the aid of... immoral advertisements. I do believe that, if advertisements should be taken at all, there should be a rigid censorship instituted by newspaper propietors and editors themselves and that only healthy advertisements should be taken.

     The evil of immoral advertisements is overtaking even what are known as the most respectable newspapers and magazines. That evil has to be combated by refining the conscience of the newspaper proprietors and editors. That refinement cannot come through the influence of an amateur editor like myself, but it will come when their own conscience is roused to recognition of the growing evil or when it is super-imposed upon them by a Government representing the people and caring for the people's mortals.

- M. K. Gandhi

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